As we continue our partnership with Swire Hotels – and their culture blog You’d Be Much Better Here – it’s time to profile a business hotel with a difference. EAST Hong Kong soaks up all the necessities and requirements that the modern business traveller requires, and drip-feeds them back to you, coated in luxury lifestyle goodness; its calming design, courtesy of CL3 Architects Ltd, taking advantage of staggering harbour views.
There’s a considered art programme – bedding down with Chinese artist Sui Jianguo’s acid-coloured dinosaurs is a real treat for those in certain suites – there’s a beautiful pool, stylish café Feast, but their “bar.deck.lounge” Sugar (located high up on the 32nd floor) is EAST’s real pièce de résistance… an expansive space, with an equally expansive vista – Sugar surely provides one of Hong Kong’s most spectacular.
Refreshing, calming, awe-inspiring… for business and design-obsessed travellers alike, EAST Hong Kong is a hotel of contrasting purposes, yet an utterly unified appeal.
